In her utmost lightness there is truth — and often she speaks lightly ; And she has a grace in being gay, which even mournful souls approve ; For the root of some grave earnest thought is understruck so rightly, As to justify the foliage and the waving... Ersilia: or, The ordeal - Page 22by Ersilia - 1867Full view - About this book
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1845 - 276 pages
...besought them, In the birchen wood a chirrup, or a cock-crow in the grange. oLADY GERALDINE S COURTSHIP. In her utmost lightness there is truth — and often she speaks lightly; And she has a grace in being gay, which mourners even approve ; For the root of some grave earnest... | |
| Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1846 - 382 pages
...as west, which ever way besought them, In the birchen wood a chirrup, or a cock-crow in the grange. In her utmost lightness there is truth — and often she speaks lightly ; And she has a grace in being gay, which mourners even approve ; For the root of some grave earnest... | |
| Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1846 - 198 pages
...as west, which ever way besought them, In the birchen wood a chirrup, or a cock-crow in the grange . In her utmost lightness there is truth — and often she speaks lightly; And she has a grace in being gay, which mourners even approve ; For the root of some grave earnest... | |
| William Adams - Allegory - 1849 - 426 pages
...of the union that frequently zvl , exists between the deepest piety and the most sparkling wit : — "For the root of some grave earnest thought is understruck so rightly, As to justify the foliage and spreading flowers above." He passed the last five years of his valuable life in strict privacy, at... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - Marriage - 1850 - 202 pages
...there is truth, — and often she speaki lightly, And has a grace in being gay, which mourners even approve ; For the root of some grave earnest thought...understruck so rightly. As to justify the foliage, and waving flowers above." Another prudential argument on the government of the temper and generous forbearance,... | |
| 1850 - 642 pages
...those of whom it may be said iu the language of one of the most spiritual of our female poets : — " In her utmost lightness there is truth — and often she speaks lightly, And has a grace in being gay which mourners even approve. For the root of some grave earnest thought... | |
| Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1852 - 364 pages
...as west, which ever way besought them, In the birchen wood a chirrup, or a cock-crow in the grange . In her utmost lightness there is truth — and often she speaks lightly ; And she has a grace in being gay, which mourners even approve ; For the root of some grave earnest... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1854 - 308 pages
...as west, whichever way besought them, In the birchen wood a chirrup, or a cock-crow in the grange. In her utmost lightness there is truth — and often she speaks lightly ; And she has a grace in being gay, which even mournful souls approve ; For the root of some grave... | |
| Mrs. Manners - Conduct of life - 1863 - 376 pages
...admirable in all, and her friends might write of her, as of the fair and noble Lady Geraldine, '• In her utmost lightness there is truth, and often she speaks lightly, And she has a grace in being gay which mourners e'en approre; For the root of some grave, earnest thought... | |
| Sarah Towne Martyn - American fiction - 1867 - 374 pages
...Pity me, holy Saint Catharine, and remember me in your daily orisons, for I need your prayers. XI. "In her utmost lightness there is truth, and often she speaks lightly, And she has a grace in being gay, which even mourners approve ; For the root of some grave earnest... | |
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